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GRAVE STUDIES 1 TIF

Fourth-graders, from left, Sumner Ellis, Jesse Cyr-Brophy and Griffin Kelley, students at Dora Small School in South Portland, huddle in a shady spot in the nearby Mount Pleasant Cemetery Thursday reading spooky stories, part of the school’s annual day-long Graveyard Learning Adventure. The students took part in graveyard math, cemetery research, graveyard art, poetry of the senses, community service and local history lessons from Katherine DiPhillippo, historian from the South Portland Historical Society.

GRAVE STUDIES 2 TIF

Julia Wilkison and Patrick McCann, fourth-graders at Dora Small School in South Portland, compare their graveyard art drawings of the John Henry Sanborn monument, during Thursday’s annual day-long Graveyard Learning Adventure at Mount Pleasant Cemetery in South Portland.

Photos courtesy Mount Pleasant Cemetery